Edgar Wedepohl

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Edgar Leonhard Wilhelm Wedepohl (born September 9, 1894 in Magdeburg , † March 17, 1983 in Berlin ) was a German architect , building researcher and university professor . He also published under the pseudonym Florestan .

Life and activity

Wedepohl was born the son of the painter Theodor Wedepohl (1863–1931) and Kathy Siegmund. After attending the Royal Prince Heinrich High School in Berlin-Schöneberg from 1900 to 1912, he studied at the technical universities in Berlin and Karlsruhe . He took part in the First World War from August 1914 to November 1918 with the Field Artillery Regiment 51 .

Wedepohl married in 1918. The marriage had three children: Wolfgang, Hans Dietrich and Ursula. In 1920 he completed his studies at the TH Karlsruhe as a graduate engineer . From 1920 to 1923 he was in the Prussian civil service as a government building manager in Krefeld and Düsseldorf. In 1923 he was appointed government architect ( assessor in public construction). In 1926 Wedepohl went to Cologne as a freelance architect and to Berlin in 1928. He lived in Berlin until at least 1943. There he was a member of the German Men's Club .

From 1939 to 1945 Wedepohl was an intelligence officer on the staff of Wilhelm Canaris , the head of the Abwehr , the secret service of the German army. The focus of Wedepohl's work, nicknamed "Professor" on Canaris' staff, was the coordination of defense in France and Belgium . Michael Graf Soltikow describes Wedepohl for these years as "a man with bushy eyebrows and a circular face that I always remember with a friendly smile." From 1945 to 1947 Wedepohl was a prisoner of war .

After the Second World War , Wedepohl taught from 1951 to 1960 as a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts and worked as an architect in Berlin-Schlachtensee . From 1949 to 1952 he was chairman of the Association of German Architects in Berlin, which was re-established with his participation and whose honorary membership was later awarded to him. Since 1957 Wedepohl sat on the advisory board of the federal building administration responsible for the Reichstag building in Berlin, which advised on all architectural questions.

Edgar Wedepohl died in Berlin in 1983 at the age of 88. His tomb is located in the forest cemetery in Zehlendorf .

plant

Wedepohl's architectural work, which characterized “overestimation of oneself” and “megalomania” as typical occupational diseases of his class, focuses primarily on the Berlin area and the surrounding area.

In 1948, Wedepohl and Hans Gerber took over the planning and supervision of the reconstruction of Babelsberg Palace , which housed the Brandenburg State Judges' School.

Fonts

  • The Weissenhof settlement of the Werkbund exhibition 'Die Wohnung', Stuttgart 1927. In: Wasmuths MONTHS FOR Baukunst, 11 (October 1927), pp. 391–402.
  • Fairy tale from the sky key. Auer, Bonn 1951.
  • Floor plan selection for residential construction. Pair. Report on the results of a research contract. 1954.
  • For the construction of the Reichstag building. In: Bauwelt , issue 29 (1959), p. 869.
  • Attachment and freedom of the arts. 1961.
  • German urban development after 1945. 1961.
  • Eumetria. The happiness of proportions. Basic dimensions and basic dimensions in building history. Contributions to musical geometry. 1967.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data after Hans Vorländer: On the aesthetics of democracy. Forms of political self-expression. 2003, p. 146.
  2. ↑ Berlin's address book for 1933, p. 2881 lists it as “Reg Baumstrasse” with the address at 22 Burggrafenstrasse. The address book for 1943, p. 3212 gives him the address Belazeile 14.
  3. ^ Winfried Meyer: Company Seven. A rescue operation for those threatened by the Holocaust from the Foreign Office / Defense in the High Command of the Wehrmacht. 1993, p. 179.
  4. ↑ Michael Alexander Soltikow: I was right in the middle. My years at Canaris. 1980, p. 97.
  5. ↑ Hans Vorländer: On the aesthetics of democracy. Forms of political self-expression. 2003, p. 146.
  6. ↑ Peter Schindler: Data Handbook on the History of the German Bundestag 1949 to 1999. 1999, p. 3345.
  7. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 631.
  8. ↑ Manfred W. Hentschel: With Latin at the end: SPIEGEL series on the crisis and future of German universities , 1970, p. 128.
  9. ↑ Prussian Gardens in History and Monument Preservation. 2006, p. 173.
personal data
SURNAME Wedepohl, Edgar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wedepohl, Edgar Leonhard Wilhelm (full name); Florestan (author's pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect, building researcher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH March 17, 1983
Place of death Berlin